The Accidental Mayor: From the Side Streets of Chinatown to the Main Street of City Hall.

My family and I immigrated from Hong Kong to Los Angeles's Chinatown in the 1960s hoping to build a better life for ourselves. However, it felt like the universe was against us. From living in a cockroach-ridden apartment with my family of nine, to getting beaten up on an almost weekly basis in school, I didn't understand why we chose America as our new home. Over the last six decades, I have lived through the happiest and most harrowing experiences and emotions. Very few things made sense ...